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A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER An intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner, human rights advocate, and former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power. Named one of the best books of the year: The New York Times • National Public Radio • Time • The Economist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly • Audible “Her highly personal and reflective memoir . . . is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world.”—President Barack Obama Includes an updated afterword Tracing her distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official, Samantha Power’s acclaimed memoir is a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits, and shrewd political insight. After her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of Senator Barack Obama, he invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. When Obama won the presidency, Power went from being an activist outsider to serving as his human rights adviser and, in 2013, becoming the youngest-ever US Ambassador to the United Nations. Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy, offering a compelling and deeply honest look at navigating the halls of power while trying to put one’s ideals into practice. Along the way, she lays bare the searing battles and defining moments of her life, shows how she juggled the demands of a 24/7 national security job with raising two young children, and makes the case for how we each can advance the cause of human dignity. This is an unforgettable account of the power of idealism—and of one person’s fierce determination to make a difference. “This is a wonderful book. […] The interweaving of Power’s personal story, family story, diplomatic history and moral arguments is executed seamlessly and with unblinking honesty.”—THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, The New York Times Book Review “Truly engrossing…A pleasure to read.”—RACHEL MADDOW “A beautiful memoir about the times we’re living in and the questions we must ask ourselves…I honestly couldn’t put it down.” —CHERYL STRAYED, author of Wild “Power’s compelling memoir provides critically important insights we should all understand as we face some of the most vexing issues of our time.” —BRYAN STEVENSON, author of Just Mercy

From former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America''s repeated failure to stop genocides around the world In her prizewinning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Power, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington''s top policymakers, thousands of declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields to provide the answer. "A Problem from Hell" shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings, and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. A modern classic and "an angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book" (New Republic), "A Problem from Hell" has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Award

At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.

Now a Netflix biopic, Sergio, with Narcos star Wagner Moura playing diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello. "The best way to understand today''s messy world is to read about the inspiring life and diplomatic genius of Sergio Vieira de Mello." –Walter Isaacson Before his death in 2003 in Iraq''s first major suicide bomb attack, Sergio Vieira de Mello--a humanitarian and peacemaker with the United Nations--placed himself at the center of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. He cut deals with the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, forcibly confronted genocidal killers from Rwanda, and used his intellect and charisma to try to tame militant extremists in Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Known as a "cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy," Vieira de Mello managed to save lives in the world''s most dangerous places, while also pressing the world''s most powerful countries to join him in grappling with such urgent dilemmas as: When should killers be engaged, and when should they be shunned? When is military force justified? How can outsiders play a role in healing broken people and broken places? He did not have the luxury of merely posing these questions; Vieira de Mello had to find answers, apply them, and live with the consequences. With Chasing the Flame, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power offers a profile in courage and humanity--and an unforgettable meditation on how best to manage the deadly challenges of the twenty-first century.

Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe, and as ambassador to both Germany and the United Nations. He had a key role in brokering a peace agreement among warring factions in Bosnia that led to the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995. Widely regarded to possess one of the most penetrating minds of any modern diplomat of any nation, Holbrooke was also well known for his outsized personality, and his capacity to charm and offend in equally colossal measures. In this book, the friends and colleagues who knew him best survey his accomplishments as a diplomat, activist, and author. Excerpts from Holbrooke''s own writings further illuminate each significant period of his career. The Unquiet American is both a tribute to an exceptional public servant and a backstage history of the last half-century of American foreign policy.

Now a Netflix biopic, with Narcos star Wagner Moura playing diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello. "The best way to understand today''s messy world is to read about the inspiring life and diplomatic genius of Sergio Vieira de Mello." –Walter Isaacson Originally published as Chasing the Flame. Before his death in 2003 in Iraq''s first major suicide bomb attack, Sergio Vieira de Mello--a humanitarian and peacemaker with the United Nations--placed himself at the center of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. He cut deals with the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, forcibly confronted genocidal killers from Rwanda, and used his intellect and charisma to try to tame militant extremists in Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Known as a "cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy," Vieira de Mello managed to save lives in the world''s most dangerous places, while also pressing the world''s most powerful countries to join him in grappling with such urgent dilemmas as: When should killers be engaged, and when should they be shunned? When is military force justified? How can outsiders play a role in healing broken people and broken places? He did not have the luxury of merely posing these questions; Vieira de Mello had to find answers, apply them, and live with the consequences. With Sergio, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power offers a profile in courage and humanity--and an unforgettable meditation on how best to manage the deadly challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Genocídio é uma pesquisa baseada em milhares de documentos secretos agora disponibilizados ao público pela Lei de Liberdade de Informação, em entrevistas com centenas de americanos que influenciaram a política externa dos Estados Unidos, em conversas com refugiados, testemunhas e repórteres, e em leis e tratados internacionais relacionados a crimes contra a humanidade. O livro analisa as respostas dos EUA aos mais conhecidos casos de genocídio do século XX: o massacre de armênios pela Turquia durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, o Holocausto, o terror de Pol Pot no Camboja nos anos 60, a campanha de extermínio dos curdos rurais no Iraque por Saddam Hussein nos anos 80, e, nos anos 90, a chacina de tutsis pelos hutus em Ruanda e as atrocidades dos sérvios nos Bálcãs. A história desses conflitos é contada da perspectiva das poucas figuras quixotescas que ousaram pressionar os EUA e a comunidade internacional para que tomassem providências contra os massacres. "Nada menos do que uma obra-prima do jornalismo contemporâneo [...] Um livro brilhante, indignado, útil e absolutamente essencial." - The New Republic "Um magnífico trabalho de reportagem que cresceu e se transformou em uma obra fundamental de política, moral e filosofia." - Observer

O relato honesto e inspirador da vencedora do prêmio Pulitzer, ativista pelos direitos humanos e ex-embaixadora dos Estados Unidos na ONU. Da autora de Genocídio e O homem que queria mudar o mundo. Nesta obra autobiográfica de fôlego, Samantha Power reconstitui a trajetória brilhante e incomum de uma irlandesa que imigrou para os Estados Unidos ainda criança, trabalhou como correspondente de guerra na Europa Oriental, tornou-se ativista de direitos humanos, integrou o gabinete presidencial de Barack Obama e foi a mais jovem embaixadora americana na ONU. Seu relato expõe as dificuldades e os momentos decisivos de sua vida, além dos desafios de equilibrar as demandas profissionais com a maternidade. Ao mesmo tempo, a autora joga luz sobre aspectos da diplomacia mundial e reflete sobre as possibilidades e os limites da atuação política. Best-seller internacional, eleito um dos melhores livros do ano por veículos como New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, NPR e Time, A educação de uma idealista é um testemunho de como o idealismo pode mudar o mundo — e da determinação incansável de alguém que sempre quis fazer a diferença. "Leitura indispensável para qualquer um que se preocupa com nosso papel num mundo em movimento." — Barack Obama "Honesto, íntimo e revelador. [...] É a trajetória de uma pessoa com alma de outsider que se tornou uma testemunha apaixonada dos acontecimentos durante o governo Obama." — Colm Tóibín

Extremamente bem documentada e escrita, esta biografia de Sergio Vieira de Mello, alto funcionário da ONU morto no Iraque em 2003, não apenas relata a vida apaixonada de um homem fascinante, mas abre espaço para uma discussão vital sobre o futuro das relações internacionais. Sergio Vieira de Mello foi um dos mais corajosos e carismáticos diplomatas de sua geração. Carioca, viu-se obrigado a viver fora do país a partir dos dezessete anos de idade, quando seu pai, também diplomata, foi punido pelo regime militar brasileiro. Muito jovem, tornou-se funcionário da Organização das Nações Unidas, com cujos ideais sempre teve grande afinidade. Diferentemente da maioria de seus colegas com formação universitária e aspirações intelectuais, preferia ir ao campo de ação em vez de exercer cargos burocráticos em Nova York. Esse fascinante personagem, já descrito como uma mistura de James Bond com Bobby Kennedy, é analisado a fundo nesta biografia de Samantha Power, outra jovem figura da mais alta relevância na teoria e prática da política internacional. Sem abandonar o espírito crítico, Power descreve a vida de Vieira de Mello em detalhes e com inegável simpatia, mostrando como a experiência do diplomata nos massacres da Bósnia e de Ruanda alteraram sua visão de mundo. A partir deles, ele, que achava possível transformar situações difíceis à base quase exclusivamente do poder das ideias, passou a considerar também essencial, no limite, o uso de força militar para impor a paz. Foi dessa maneira que Vieira de Mello assumiu a difícil posição de chefe da missão da ONU no Iraque após a invasão americana, num momento em que o governo dos Estados Unidos e seus representantes em Bagdá ainda consideravam a ONU mais um empecilho do que um aliado (depois, com o fracasso incontestável das políticas de ocupação, essa atitude mudaria radicalmente). Vieira de Mello não teve muito tempo para reverter a situação. Em 19 de agosto de 2003, um atentado suicida destruiu parte do quartel-general da ONU em Bagdá, e ele foi uma das suas vítimas fatais. Sua história, no entanto, permanece como ponto fundamental no debate sobre o futuro da ONU e das relações internacionais. "O homem que queria salvar o mundo relata com engajamento, detalhismo, compaixão e empatia a vida de um brasileiro dedicada à humanidade." - Folha de S.Paulo "Uma biografia que reconstitui a admirável trajetória do diplomata Sergio Vieira de Mello, encarnação dos melhores ideais humanitários da ONU." - Veja "Certamente a vida e a morte de Vieira de Mello são um bom lugar para começar uma discussão séria sobre a melhor maneira de gerir a ordem mundial no futuro." - Francis Fukuyama, The New York Times "Samantha Power se propõe não apenas a escrever uma biografia de Vieira de Mello, mas também a colher de sua vida algumas lições importantes. Seu livro é um esforço ambicioso, uma narrativa longa e sinuosa que, ao final, resulta brilhante." - The Washington Post

En esta controvertida obra ganadora del Premio Pulitzer 2003, la autora analiza c mo ha reaccionado el gobierno de Estados Unidos en los distintos casos de genocidio del siglo XX, desde la matanza de armenios en la primera Guerra Mundial hasta los asesinatos en masa de los tutsi de Ruanda en 1994. Su an lisis revela un comportamiento consistente y devastador: Estados Unidos se ha negado a actuar o a emplear incluso la palabra genocidio Para nombrar esos hechos atroces, y se ha refugiado en la invocaci n repetida a la ausencia de intereses estadunidenses en los pa ses involucrados. Con entrevistas exclusivas, la revisi n de documentos hasta hace poco restringidos y su experiencia como corresponsal de guerra, Power hace una escalofriante llamada de atenci n sobre las responsabilidades del poder econ mico y militar.

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"La muerte del carismático comisionado de los derechos humanos, Sergio Vieira de Mello, en un ataque suicida en Bagdad en 2003, representó, al mismo tiempo, la culminación trágica de un idealista que dedicó su vida a luchar contra la guerra, y el inicio de una serie de desventuras para los representantes de la ONU en Irak ... Samantha Power sigue a Vieira a través de su carrera, explica su condición de exiliado, habla de sus aportaciones a la construcción de la paz y recuerda las trasgresiones a las prácticas burocráticas de la ONU que lo llevaron a convertirse en una de las figuras centrales de la diplomacia internacional durante las décadas finales del siglo XX"--Page 4 of cover.

Leerschool van een idealist van Samantha Power is een onvergetelijk relaas over de kracht van idealisme. Power bevond zich lang in het hart van de politieke macht in Washington: als Amerikaanse ambassadeur bij de Verenigde Naties en als mensenrechtenadviseur van president Obama. Daarvoor was ze oorlogscorrespondent en uitte ze stevige kritiek op het Amerikaanse buitenlandbeleid. Toen ze van outsider een insider werd, moest ze haar idealen zien te verenigen met de realiteit van het regeren. In deze memoires vertelt Power over die tijd, maar ook over haar jeugd in Dublin en Atlanta en over haar werk als journalist en activist. Openhartig en met humor laat ze zien hoe uitdagend het is om de opvoeding van twee jonge kinderen te combineren met een 24/7-baan in Washington. Ze geeft inzicht in de complexiteit van de internationale politiek, die in haar ambtstermijn bijzonder roerig was.

Kritische historische studie over de afzijdige houding van Amerikaanse en Westerse politici bij talrijke gevallen van genocide in de twintigste eeuw.

Kritische historische studie over de afzijdige houding van Amerikaanse en Westerse politici bij talrijke gevallen van genocide in de twintigste eeuw.

A forestry investment can include land suitable for growing trees, the trees themselves, or both. Forestry has long provided opportunities for institutional investors but the scope for this investment remains limited. Forestry investment can offer financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) benefits. However, challenges to investing in forestry are significant particularly in emerging markets, which is also where reforestation, afforestation, and sustainable forest management is most needed. Currently, there is a lack of both knowledge about and interest in the forestry asset class. This report addresses this by detailing the nature of forestry investments, explores the case for investing in forestry, explains the mechanics of forestry investments, and highlights some of the challenges. The report concludes that the time is right to support broader involvement by pension plans in forestry investments globally.

Boken er en politisk biografi om Sergio Vieira de Mello, FNs spesialutsending som mistet livet da FNs hovedkontor i Bagdad ble rammet av en bilbombe i 2003. Forfatteren har fulgt brasilianerens livsløp fra han var studentradikaler på 1960-tallet og frem til han ble en forsvarer av militære intervensjoner rundt årtusenskiftet. Leseren tas med fra Libanon til Kambodsja, fra Balkan til Øst-Timor og inn i Irak. I tillegg til å være en politisk biografi om en skjebne fra vår egen tid, er boken også et dokument over internasjonale konflikter de siste tiårene. Introduksjon ved Aslak Nore.